Tag: Fukushima Dai-ichi Accident in 2011*
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Nuclear Power Plants: Restart, Not Restart?
Nuclear Power Plants: Restart, Not Restart? On the afternoon of 11 March 2011, an earthquake measured at magnitude 9 struck northeast Japan, followed by a tsunami that sent walls of water as high as 50 feet against a vast strip of coastline. Compounding the disaster, the tsunami destroyed the cooling system of a nuclear power…